Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl dies

Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of Germanyand#39;s 1990 reunification and mentor to Angela Merkel, has died at age 87, his Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) said on Friday.
The mass-selling newspaper Bild reported that Kohl died on Friday morning in his home in Ludwigshafen, in western Germany.
We mourn, the CDU tweeted with a picture of the former chancellor, reports Reuters.
Germanyand#39;s longest serving post-war chancellor from 1982 to 1998, Kohl was a driving force behind the intro